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Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract Speech communities have the tendency to develop habits as to which words tend to co‐occur, in the form of coinages and collocational patterns, thus constituting an aspect conducive to the subtle emergence of language variation. As these co‐occurrence tendencies become lexicalised and confined to specific, rigid word combinations, new ...
Mary Ifeoluwa Abidoye, Hans‐Georg Wolf
wiley   +1 more source

Engaging the stuff of words: language materiality and symbolic power. [PDF]

Educ Linguist
Thurlow C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Consonant clusters in Nigerian English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores consonant cluster production and its influencing factors in Nigerian English using a corpus‐based approach. More than 4000 onset and coda consonant clusters produced in the broadcast talks, broadcast discussions and broadcast news from ICE‐Nigeria by a total of 44 speakers were analysed with reference to cluster position ...
Ulrike Gut, Philipp Meer
wiley   +1 more source

The semantics, sociolinguistics, and origins of double modals in American English: New insights from social media. [PDF]

PLoS One
Morin C, Grieve J.
europepmc   +1 more source

A sociolinguistic study of the regional French of Normandy [PDF]

, 2008
Damien Hall
openalex  

Nigerian English: History, functions and features

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discusses the historical developments of English in Nigeria with reference to the events that led to ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi, Sopuruchi Christian Aboh   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The cognitive science of language diversity: achievements and challenges. [PDF]

Cogn Process
Benítez-Burraco A.
europepmc   +1 more source

THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDIES OF BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES TO SOCIOLINGUISTICS

, 2015
Jacqueline Ortelan Maia Botassini
openalex   +1 more source

Sociolinguistic variation in the rhythm of Nigerian English speech

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a dearth of research on speech rhythm in Nigerian English, and scholars have differing views on its nature, ranging from being syllable‐timed to tone‐timed. Apart from the fact that the majority of few available studies were conducted more than a decade ago, the exact nature of speech rhythm in Nigerian English remains contentious ...
Folajimi Oyebola, Osemudiamhe Ilekura
wiley   +1 more source

BanglaSarc3: A benchmark dataset for Bangla sarcasm detection from social media to advance Bangla NLP. [PDF]

Data Brief
Biswas S, Zahid MMR, Rabeya MT, Abedin MM, Bijoy MHI, Rahman MS.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source